Price and profit curbs—or how really to fight inflation
A crude, one-club monetary policy has already caused bank collapses. More damage will follow more interest-rate hikes.
Unlocking vacant properties to tackle homelessness
Europe’s cities have many social outsiders. Lessons are emerging on how ‘housing first’ can include them.
Electricity-market reform: take the ‘market’ out
The European Commission’s proposed reform of the electricity market would be a sticking plaster for a failing system.
Generative AI needs more than a light touch
Chatbots such as ChatGPT raise huge data-protection and moral questions regulators must address.
Delegitimising social critique and dissent on the left
Eszter Kováts writes that censoriousness is not the way to deal with legitimate concerns about social-justice claims.
The unfulfilled promises of financial regulation
With further bank failures, tough regulation is urgent, so society is no longer held hostage by finance.
Corporate taxation: financing state and welfare
Trade unions in Sweden want a more equitable tax system, where companies compete on quality, not tax minimisation.
Europe ‘outsourcing’ asylum to Africa
Outsourcing asylum to African countries is a terrible idea—there are alternatives.
Myanmar: trade unionists in the firing line
The EU should suspend trade preferences for Myanmar and end support for projects under the military regime.
Belarus: support jailed trade unionists
On the anniversary of the imprisonment of Belarus’ union leadership, Europe must renew efforts for the release of political prisoners.
Football’s tilted playing-pitch in Europe
The beautiful game is sullied by commodification. Regulation should empower the fans at its heart.
The populist-radical-right impact on the welfare state
Radical-right parties are transforming the welfare state, recreating a moral separation between the ‘deserving’ and ‘undeserving’.
Global cities: crucibles of innovation
Urban geographer Ash Amin explains to Robin Wilson why modern metropoles can be hubs of innovation and dynamism.
The challenge of instant democracy
We need to find ways, Jan Zielonka writes, to ensure that ‘fast’ democracy is not ‘junk’ democracy.
Eradicating long-term unemployment
Social enterprises can offer the long-term unemployed an exit from the vicious circle of inactivity, France is showing.
Late retirement: possible for many, not for all
Finland was quick to respond to demographic ageing. What lessons can be learnt from its pension reforms?
Feminist governance—here to stay, or gone tomorrow?
Since 1975 feminists have helped establish new international frameworks. Success inadvertently sowed the seeds of populist campaigns.